The most important resources found in Novus are the Talics: Crystalized halomental stones used to improve battle efficiency of the races of Novus. These talics are acquired randomly through processing ores acquired through Mining. There are different kinds of talics that each serve it’s unique purpose. They are:

Keen Taliccan be used on: Close and long range weaponsattribute: Increases attack power

Mercy Taliccan be used on: Shoesattribute: Increases dodge rate

Favor Taliccan be used on: All armoursattribute: Increases defense power

Darkness Taliccan be used on: Glovesattribute: Decreases target’s ability to block with a shield

In the past, these are the only use of these talics. Some of the talics are even tagged as “useless” for their use has very minimal effects / difference in battle. Often, they were discarded or traded for very little amount of Gold, but now, these talics have more use than ever before.

SECTION A: Talics as Certain Point Recovery items.
Now that the Certain Point system has been introduced, Talics have an additional use. When you lose Certain Points when you are killed by another player, you can recover them through the use of talics.

1. Grab any kind of talic.
2. Go to your Race Manager. Click on Certain Point Recovery.
3. Put the talic in the box that appears. Then, click ‘RECOVERY’.

Note: There are divisions of talic efficiency in this section. They are the Following:

This process only recovers your certain point, not your Temporary Point. It will take 24 hours before the Temporary Point is deducted from your Certain point, and if the result is not negative, you cannot recover it using talics.

SECTION B: Talics as immediate currency.
Each talic now has a Racial Currency Equivalence. This means that you can process one talic and sell it to in-game NPC’s to gain immediate racial currency. Depending on which talic you process, you will create a CHIP that you can sell to the NPC for different amounts of currency. All you need to do is:

1. Grab a talic and a Gold catalyst.
2. Go to the HERO NPC. Process 1 pc of talic and 1 pc of Gold catalyst (no processing cost).
3. The result would be a “Chip”.
4. You can now sell the Chip to in-game NPCs. Further use of these chips are unknown.

NOTE: The talic you use will determine the racial currency that the chips will obtain. They are:

Class A: Keen, Favor = Gives a “RED CHIP”; Each RED CHIP sells for more or less 5,000,000 racial currency, depending on tax.

Red chips are different from Warrior’s Witness. They cannot be combined.

SECTION C: Keen and Favor Mysterious Boxes
Keen and favor talics now have a special use, aside from upgrading your equipment. They can now be exchanged to defense or offense boxes. These boxes give random items, which range from various EXP Recovery pills to Superior Weapons and Armors. Trading a Keen or Favor talic for a Mysterious Box costs 100k racial currency.

1. Grab a Keen or Favor talic.
2. Go to the Talic Collector and click on the desired option.
3. You will receive a Mysterious Talic Box. Right click on the box to claim reward.

List of possible rewards: *Blessed* Mysterious Box [Defense]

Favor Talics

Leon’s boxes

Exp recovery pills (Type C – F)

Superior armors

Intense armors

NOTE: The Blessed Mysterious Box [defense] gives better chances to get Superior high level Armors. It normally gives out Pills.

Mining is very hard nowadays, since the only time you can mine is if your race wins the Chip wars AND if your race has successfully defended the HaloStone Keeper. Otherwise, acquisition of talics is very hard and, ultimately, the acquisition of a Talic Crystal is harder. A solution for this is decomposing your Keen talics into 5 other talics, thus making it possible for you to create 5 talic crystals with 20 pcs of keen talics.

How to decompose a Keen talic:
1. Grab a Keen talic.
2. Go to the hero NPC and process the talic ALONE. There will be a 5m processing fee.
3. Claim the 5 talics produced. The process has a high success rate.

The decomposition process will yield 5 talics:

Mercy talic

Grace talic

Wisdom talic

Darkness Talic

Chaos Talic

SECTION E: Talic Crystals

A Talic crystal is a very rare combination of the same kind of talic. This is used to acquire Superior Weapon and Armor boxes for different levels. Superior Armors and weapons have stronger Defensive and Offensive powers than their Intense counterparts. To be able to create a talic crystal, you need to:

1. Gather 20 talics of the same kind.
2. Go to the Hero NPC and process the talics. There is a 1k processing fee.
3. Claim the Talic crystal. The process has a high success rate.

The Talic crystal can be exchanged for different kinds of boxes from different NPCs. These NPCs will require a certain number of talic crystals for their wares, ranging from 1 pc up to 45 pcs of talic crystals.

Talic Collector:

Will ask for 1 talic crystal in exchange for 1 Novajan’s Ancient Remain.